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GRADUATE HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

May 21, 2005

 
9:00-10:15
HMNSS 1500
Representation and the Mass Media
Panel Chair: Professor Daniel Christensen
Panel:    
  Kathleen McGuire: "The Ignorant Vote": The Relationship Between Race, Class, and Constructed Whiteness in Nineteenth Century American Political Cartoons.
  Mark Bernhardt: "Picturing the World at War."
  Chris McColm: "And it Happens Every Day." American Culture and the Vicissitudes of Masculinity in The Long Goodbye and Chinatown.
     
9:00-10:15
HMNSS 1500
Identity in Late Nineteenth Century America History Library
Panel Chair: Professor David Biggs
Panel:    
  Jim Aikens: "Freemasonry and Boston’s Free Black Community: 1800-1860."
  Omar Ronquillo: Rather Better 'an Bummin': Revisiting the Industrial Schools and Lodging Houses of the Children's Aid Society.
     
10:30-11:45
HMNSS 1500
Materializing Womanhood in the Twentieth Century United States
Panel Chair: Professor Rebecca "Monte" Kugel
Panel:    
  Jamie Bufalino: "Often a Bridesmaid but Never a Bride": Advice for the Lovelorn From Listerine Mouth Wash, 1925
  Cathy Nista: Go Get Mother's Pickett Sign: Crossing Spheres With the Material Culture of Sufferage
  Heather Mayes: "Pearls of the Working Class": Images of Women in IWW Literature, 1905-1919
     
11:45-1:00
HMNSS 1500
History and Memory
Panel Chair: Professor Devra Weber
Panel:    
  John Bawden: "Dictatorship and Diaspora: Nationalism and Memory in Paraguayan Political Discourse, 1954-1989."
  Moises Medina: History and its Discontents: Los Angeles, Graffiti and Space
  Asiris Cruz:

"A Tale of Seven Tales: Interpreting Witnesses Accounts of a Cuban Peasant’s Revolt in the Early Eighteenth Century."

     
11:45-1:00
History Library
Native American
Panel Chair: Professor Rebecca "Monte" Kugel
Panel:    
  John Illie: The Curriculum of the Navajo Special Five Year Program: Education for Social Change.
  Kelly Short: Outing at Sherman Institute
  Vera Parnham: "Something Worth Going Up That Cliff For": The Occupation of Fort Lawton and the Creation of Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
     

1:00-2:15

Lunch
   
2:15-3:45
HMNSS 1500
UCR Outside the Americas
Panel Chair: TBA
Panel:    
  Ian Chambers:

'As We Made Nearer and Nearer the Shore, the Land Look'd More Frightful than the Sea.'

  Tim Watson: The Perception of Baiae and Luxuria in the Fourth Century C.E.: The Evidence from the Letters of Q. Aurelius Symmachus.
  Lisa Musick: Transitions of Breastfeeding Practices in Early Modern England.
     

2:15-3:45
History Library

Militarization, Imperialism, and America
Panel Chair: Professor Kiril Tomoff
Panel:    
  Roger Possner: "A nation of Marksmen: Target Shooting and Militarization, 1900-1914."
  Tim Russell: "When the Time Comes": The African-American Reaction to the Spanish-American War.
  Dino Buenviaje: Through the Looking Glass: Anglo-Saxonism and its Role in the Anglo-American Rapprochement
     

4:00
HMNSS 1500

Plenary Session
Professor Carlos Cortez: Conversations with Alana